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Rhymes Of The Rockies Or, What The Poets Have Found To Say Of The Beautiful Scenery On The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, The Scenic Line Of The World

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad

Eleventh edition. 8 1/4" x 6 5/8" in light green printed wrappers, with title in gold gilt. 64 pp., engraved illustrations, map. A book of poems, descriptive of the scenes among the Rocky Mountains as viewed from trains of The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Before each poem is a picture and description of the place described in the poem. Includes poems about Palmer Lake, Garden of the Gods, Manitou, Cheyenne Canon, Veta Pass, Sierra Blanca, Wagon Wheel Gap, Toltec Gorge, homes of cliff-dwellers, Royal Gorge, Mount of the Holy Cross, the Black Canon, Marshall Pass, etc. Light soiling to wrappers and with minor wear to extremities. Very good. A nice item with much information.